To preliminarily determine the appropriate dosage of carboplatin (CBP) at AUC of 5 mg.Ml(-1).min(-1) in the combination chemotherapy for Chinese senile patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thirty-five Chinese senile patients with NSCLC in advanced stage (III/IV) were given 96 cycles of combination chemotherapy. Chemotherapy schedules included Taxol+CBP, Gemzar+CBP and NVB+CBP. The dose of CBP was at 5 mg.mL(-1).min(-1) of area under the concentration-time curve (AUC). Side effects and quality of life were observed before and after the chemotherapy. Myelosuppression was severe and commonly observed. Grade 3/4 of granulocytopenia was found in 47.9% (46/96) of the patients and grade 3/4 of thrombocytopenia was noted in 28.1% (27/96) of the subjects. However, other side effects were slight. The mean score of quality of life (QOL), according to the criteria of QOL for Chinese cancer patients had reduced 6.8. At 5 mg.mL(-1).min(-1) by AUC, the hematological toxicity of CBP was severe and it had some negative effects on the QOL. The administration of CBP at 5 mg.mL(-1).min(-1) by AUC may be too high for Chinese senile patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/*therapeutic use ; Area Under Curve ; Carboplatin/*administration & dosage ; Carboplatin/adverse effects ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*drug therapy ; Lung Neoplasms/*drug therapy

Objective To study the influence of early intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering treatment on peri-he?matomal secondary neuronal injury and prognosis after acute intracerebral hemorrhage. Methods A randomised con?trolled trial consisting of 36 consecutive patients within 6 h of intracerebral hemorrhage onset were randomly assigned to intensive BP lowering group and guideline BP lowering group. All patients underwent MR spectroscopy at 72 h and were followed up 90 days. N Acetyl Aspartate/Creatine (NAA/Cr) and lactic acid wave around peri-hematomal at 72 h, neuro?logic function at early stage, and death and/or disability at 90d were compared between these two group. Results Spec?trum lines were obtained from thirty-one patients:14 from intensive BP lowing group and 17 from guideline BP lowering group. There was no significant difference in the percentage declines of NAA/Cr at 72 h between the two groups (13.3%± 4.2% vs. 11.9%± 2.8%, P = 0.308). There was no statistical differences either in neurologic function at 7 d or in death and/or disability at 90 d (P>0.05). Conclusions Early intensive BP-lowering treatment had no role on peri-hematomal secondary neuronal injury and prognosis after acute intracerebral hemorrhage. Further high-quality and large-scale ran?domised controlled trial are necessary to verify this result.

Objective To explore the application values and the effect of myocardial preservation of right stellate ganglion block in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG). Methods Sixty-two patients with ASA Ⅱ or Ⅲ,aged 50-75 years,scheduled for OPCABG were randomly divided into stellate ganglion block group (group SGB)and control group (group C)with 31 cases each.The patients in group SGB received right-lateral SGB before anesthesia induction.The medications and methods of anesthesia induction in the two groups were identical.Hemodynamics be-fore start of anethesia (T0 ),after induction (T1 ),after intubation tube (T2 ),after sternotomy (T3 ),at the beginning of bypass surgery for interrupted coronary artery (T4 ),at the end of coronary bypass grafting (T5 )were observed.Meanwhile,changes of serum cardiac troponin I (cTnI)and cre-atine phosphokinase MB (CK-MB)at T0 ,6 h (T6 ),12 h (T7 ),24 h (T8 )after operation were also observed.The operative time,the amount of drugs used and postoperative recovery were recored. Results MAP,HR of group SGB increased at T2-T5 compared with T0 ,and MAP,HR of group C significantly increased at T2-T5 comparing with T0 (P <0.05).Compared with those in group SGB, MAP,HR significantly increased at T2-T5 in group C (P <0.05 ).The Concentrations of cTnI and CK-MB of group C increased more obviously than those in group SGB at T6-T8 (P <0.05).Compared with group C,patients in group SGB needed less medication,less hospitalization time in ICU and had faster postoperative recovery.Conclusion SGB for patients during OPCABG stabilizes hemodynamy stability,further reduces myocardial injury,thus protecting myocardium.

Objective: To investigate the expressions of Fas, FasL in papillary adenocarcinoma of thyroid gland tissues and their tumor infiltrating lymphocytes(TIL), and its relationship with apoptosis and Fas, FasL in thyroid tumors.Methods: We detected the apoptotic rate and the expression of apoptotic related gene Fas in 43 cases of papliiary adenocarcinoma of thyroid gland with flow cytometry. The expression Fas and FasL were measured in 43 cases of papillary adenocarcinoma of thyroid gland, 28 cases of thyroid adenoma,43 paplillary adenocarcinoma of thyroid gland TIL,17 thyroid adenoma TIL using flow cytometry.Results: 19 cases in papillary adenocarcinoma showed low expression of Fas protein with an average apoptotic rate of 3.71% and 24 cases had high expression of Fas with an apoptotic rate of 7 26%(P

Objective:To explore whether the inequality of economic development in different provinces in China leads to differences in pediatric nurses ′ health education literacy and to analyze related factors affecting pediatric nurses ′ health education literacy. Methods:Self-designed and tested online questionnaire of competencies in health education (scoring scale 10-50) were distributed to pediatric nurses in China in October 2018. We examined the influencing factors of competencies in health education and its relationship with the province-level data on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.Results:A total of 15 443 pediatric nurses from 31 provinces were eligible for the analysis. At the regional of GDP per capital over than 20 000 US dollars, 15 000 to 20 000 US dollars, 10 000 to 14 900 US dollars and less than 10 000 US dollars, the health education literacy scores were 40.76±4.52, 40.66±4.08, 40.50± 4.02 and 39.69±4.32 respectively. Significant difference was found between the competencies in health education of pediatric nurses and provinces with different GDP per capita ( F value was 9.21, P<0.001). Regression and hierarchical analysis models based on GDP per capita showed that: nurses with senior professional titles, bachelor degrees or above, aged over 40, and those working in emergency rooms have higher competencies in health education ( OR value was 0.296-4.766, P<0.05) . Lower competencies in health education were demonstrated on nurses who have been working less than 5 years ( OR value was 0.319, P<0.05). Conclusions:Economic development is one of the main factors that affect the competencies in health education of pediatric nurses in China. Pediatric nurses who were young, had limited working experience, with low office titles, with low education background, and who working at non-emergency rooms require more training.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and its ligands (EGF and TGFalpha) are over-expressed in a variety of tumors. Immunization EGF-carrier protein inhibits tumor growth through abrogating binding of EGF to EGFR. Here, a chimeric protein of EGF and TGFalpha (E5T) was genetically fused to Staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), a bacterial superantigenic protein which promotes humoral B cell response through enhancement of Ag-specific CD4 T cells activity. The resulted fusion proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified though metal chelating affinity chromatography. Immunization of E5T-mSEA fusion protein in mice induced production of high titers antibodies, which recognize both EGF and TGFalpha. Anti- E5T-mSEA serum at dilution of 1:10 significantly inhibited growth of A431 cell lines but had little effect on 293T cell lines.
Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cancer Vaccines ; biosynthesis ; immunology ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Enterotoxins ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; Epidermal Growth Factor ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; Escherichia coli ; genetics ; metabolism ; Humans ; Immunization ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Random Allocation ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor ; antagonists & inhibitors ; immunology ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; biosynthesis ; genetics ; immunology ; Transforming Growth Factor alpha ; biosynthesis ; genetics

Purpose: RIOK1 has been proved to play an important role in cancer cell proliferation and migration in various types of cancers—such as colorectal and gastric cancers. However, the expression of RIOK1 in breast cancer (BC) and the relationship between RIOK1 expression and the development of BC are not well characterized. In this study, we assessed the expression of RIOK1 in BC and evaluated the mechanisms underlying its biological function in this disease context. Materials and Methods: We used immunohistochemistry, western blot and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction to evaluate the expression of RIOK1 in BC patients. Then, knockdown or overexpression of RIOK1 were used to evaluate the effect on BC cells in vitro and in vivo. Finally, we predicted miR-204-5p could be a potential regulator of RIOK1. Results: We found that the expression levels of RIOK1 were significantly higher in hormone receptor (HR)–negative BC patients and was associated with tumor grades (p=0.010) and p53 expression (p=0.008) and survival duration (p=0.011). Kaplan-Meier analysis suggested a tendency for the poor prognosis. In vitro, knockdown of RIOK1 could inhibit proliferation, invasion, and induced apoptosis in HR-negative BC cells and inhibited tumorigenesis in vivo, while overexpression of RIOK1 promoted HR-positive tumor progression. MiR-204-5p could regulate RIOK1 expression and be involved in BC progression. Conclusion These findings indicate that RIOK1 expression could be a biomarker of HR-negative BC, and it may serve as an effective prognostic indicator and promote BC progression.

Objective To analyze the clinical and pathological features of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with hepatic steatosis.Methods Clinical and pathological data of 841 patients with CHB who underwent liver biopsy in Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital during September 2015 to September 2018 were retrospectively reviewed.One hundred and thirty five gender and age-matched pairs of steatosis and non-steatosis patients entered the analysis.Multivariable Logistic regression and rank sum test were used to analyze the clinical features and risk factors of hepatic steatosis in CHB patients .Spearman correlation test was used to analyze the correlation between hepatic steatosis and HBV DNA , hepatic inflammation and fibrosis status.Results Logistic regression analysis showed that overweight ／obesity ( χ2 ＝3.947, OR ＝1.436, 95%CI 1.005-2.051, P＜0.05) and hyperlipidemia (χ2 ＝4.277,OR＝1.803,95%CI 1.031-3.151, P＜0.05) were the risk factors for hepatic steatosis in CHB patients.There was no correlation of hepatic steatosis with serum HBeAg and HBV DNA levels (Z＝-1.762,r＝-0.011, both P＞0.05). However, hepatic steatosis was negatively correlated with inflammatory grade and fibrosis grade of the liver (r＝-0.146 and -0.192, both P＜0.05).Conclusions Overweight／obesity and hyperlipidemia are associated with steatosis in CHB patients.Hepatic steatosis may not aggravate the degree of liver inflammation and fibrosis in CHB patients.

To preliminarily determine the appropriate dosage of carboplatin (CBP) at AUC of 5 mg·Ml-1·min-1 in the combination chemotherapy for Chinese senile patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thirty-five Chinese senile patients with NSCLC in advanced stage (Ⅲ/Ⅳ) were given 96 cycles of combination chemotherapy. Chemotherapy schedules included Taxol+CBE Gemzar+CBP and NVB+CBP. The dose of CBP was at 5 mg·mL-1·min-1 of area under the concen- tration-time curve (AUC). Side effects and quality of life were observed before and after the chemo- therapy. Myelosuppression was severe and commonly observed. Grade 3/4 of granuiocytopenia was found in 47.9% (46/96) of the patients and grade 3/4 of thrombocytopenia was noted in 28.1% (27/96) of the subjects. However, other side effects were slight. The mean score of quality of life (QOL), ac- cording to the criteria of QOL for Chinese cancer patients had reduced 6.8. At 5 mg·mL-1·min-1 by AUC, the hematological toxicity of CBP was severe and it had some negative effects on the QOL. The administration of CBP at 5 mg·mL-1·min-1 by AUC may be too high for Chinese senile patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Objective:To investigate the clinical value of fetal ultrasonography in the screening of congenital heart malformations in twins at 11-13 + 6 weeks of gestation. Methods:A retrospective cohort study method was used.Cases were collected from Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital (January 2012 to December 2016) and the Fourth Hospital of Shijiazhuang City (January 2014 to December 2018). The twins with singleton or twins with cardiac malformation were screened out as the cardiac malformation group, and the twins with normal delivery during the same period were selected as the control group. Ultrasound data such as the nuchal translucency (NT), crown-rump-length (CRL), chorionicity, conception method, NT discordance, CRL discordance, NT discordance ≥20% incidence rate between twins, and the CRL discordance ≥10% incidence rate between twins in the two groups at 11-13 + 6 weeks were compared and analyzed. Results:①There were 30 cases in the cardiac malformation group (including 27 twins with singleton cardiac malformation and 3 twins with twin cardiac malformation) and 1 906 cases in the control group. ②The incidence rates of NT value ≥95th percentile and NT value ≥99th percentile in one or two pregnancies were significantly higher in the cardiac malformation group than in the control group (20.00% vs 2.20%, P<0.001; 10.00% vs 0.63%, P=0.002), the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for cardiac malformation screening was 0.589 and 0.549, respectively; CRL discordance in cardiac malformation group was higher than that in control group ( P=0.018), the incidence of CRL discordance ≥10% in the cardiac malformation group was higher than that in the control group (26.67% vs 12.70%, P=0.024), the AUC of cardiac malformation screening was 0.570; there were no significant differences in the incidence of NT discordance, the incidence of NT discordance ≥20%, pregnancy pattern and chorionicity between the two groups (all P>0.05). ③Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was performed using the incidence rates of NT value ≥95% and NT value ≥99%, CRL discordance ≥10%, and NT discordance ≥20%. The incidences of fetal NT value ≥95% and NT value ≥99% were risk factors for cardiac malformation in twins ( OR=11.095, 105.778; 95% CI=4.311-28.558, 16.984-658.796). Conclusions:Ultrasound at 11-13 + 6 weeks of gestation showing thickened value of one or two fetuses, and the CRL discordance≥10%, indicates an increased risk of cardiac malformation in the twins; NT value ≥95% and NT value ≥99% is a risk factor for heart defects in twins.